Tridion developer articles and tutorials

  • SDL Web 8: Roadmap and Features

    Alvin Reyes
     

    “The future depends on what we do today.”

    — Mahatma Gandhi

    The last post described the SDL Tridion name change to SDL Web 8. This post looks at product vision, focus, and feature comparisons.

    Strategic Roadmap: Where are we heading?

    The future of SDL Web depends on what we’ve accomplished…

  • SDL Web 8: What’s in a Name? (Part 1)

    Alvin Reyes
     
    “What’s in a name? That which we call a rose      By any other name would smell as sweet;            So Tridion would, were it not Tridion call’d,” --Shakespeare (sort of)

  • Tridion Event System for Beginners !!

    Anupam Baksi
     
    What is Tridion Event System?

    An Event Handler is a .NET assembly that uses the Event-System to hook into events that are occurring in the Content Manager. An Event Handler is triggered when an event occurs, like when a Component being saved or Page is...

  • Not-So-Dumb SmartTarget Questions

    Alvin Reyes
     

    The hardest SDL SmartTarget implementation parts are the ones you don't know about. This post covers four not-so-dumb SmartTarget (ST) questions you will likely encounter in your first SmartTarget implementations.

    1. How do I gather and implement personalization requirements?
    2. Can I have a tie, matching…

  • High Speed Tridion Publishing on slow intercontinental connections

    S Veenhoven
     

    Source URL: https://github.com/sieger82/high-speed-tridion-publishing

    When my employer decided to add an extra Tridion publication server located in China, to speed up website access for our Chinese customers, we quickly ran into problems with publishing from the content manager server (based in Europe…

  • Setting Up SDL Language Cloud (BeGlobal) on SDL Tridion 2013 SP1

    Alvin Reyes
     

    This tutorial shows how to set up Translation Manager, the connector between SDL Tridion and SDL's translation management systems, with SDL BeGlobal, also known as SDL Language Cloud.

    Background

    The following exercise can be accomplished within an hour to quickly demonstrate at least machine translation…

  • How Should I Use SDL Community?

    Alvin Reyes
     
    In this opinion piece, I describe the role I see SDL Community playing in the SDL Tridion Community. Introduced early in 2015, the community site has high- and possibly unclear expectations. Like Tridion Stack Exchange, SDL Tridion Ideas, and Tridion World the site will become what you need it to be…

  • SDL Tridion Workflow – Translation Manager Integration

    Eric Huiza
     

    One common use case in several SDL Tridion implementations is to include Content Translation capabilities in SDL Tridion Workflow.  There are several design decisions to take in order to accomplish, I will list the main ones in this blog post.

    1. Blue Print

    Content Translation is about Content Localization…

  • SDL Tridion and Marketo Forms Integration

    Eric Huiza
     

    In one of my previous projects I received a requirement about integrating SDL Tridion with Marketo Forms due to a requirement to embedded external forms into a Tridion Based Web Application.

    Marketo provides 3 different ways to create forms, each of them directly affect the integration approach.

    1. 

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